Feb 15, 2024 - Sale 2659

Sale 2659 - Lot 58

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
PIERRE DUBREUIL (1872-1944)
Pâques Carillonnées [Easter Chimes]. Silver print, the image measuring 9⅝x7⅝ inches (24.4x19.4 cm.), the mount 16x11¾ inches (40.6x29.8 cm.), with Dubreuil's monogram in pencil on print recto, his title in pencil on mount recto, and his signature, title, and notation "No. 65" in pencil and stamp "DB69," on mount verso. 1929

Provenance: Tom Jacobson Collection, San Diego, California; to the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl

While Dubreuil's photographs were widely published and exhibited in his day, extant prints are scarce. Fearing for the safety of his work at the outset of World War II, Dubreuil sold his negatives and many of his photographs to the Agfa Gevaert factory in Belgium. When the factory was bombed, nearly all of Dubreuil's oeuvre was destroyed.